they said to me. Photos of someone opening your mouth and putting something inside my mouth gave me jumps of anxiety. All that tools around the dental office‚ the shiny knives‚ the immaculate white room and the image of the doctor’s perfect teeth‚ all that made my heart rate increased and I felt like I was on a roller coaster. Because my first time in a dental office was not as everyone- and including myself expected to be.
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The Benefits of Receiving Dental Care from Private vs. NHS Deciding where to go for dental care can be a painstaking process. These are some things to take into accounts regarding NHS and Private dental care. Receiving dental care is an important step in the process of keeping teeth healthy and clean. In the UK‚ there are two options for where to receive dental care‚ either from the NHS or from private firms. Both options offer their own benefits. The following are some things that should be taken
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Women are often unaware of the importance of visiting the dentist while pregnant and therefore do not make their oral health a priority during this time. Dental visits are not only important to the mother‚ but are just as important to the baby. While the baby is in utero‚ they begin to develop their features‚ including their primary teeth. You cannot physically see these teeth when you look in their mouths because they are in the alveolar bone and do not erupt until the baby is a few months old
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Dental case history is a classic form of documentation in dentistry. It includes several parts: general information about the patient‚ information about the patient’s general condition and health‚ the patient’s reason for attendance‚ past dental history‚ family and social background and in some countries it includes also part with insurance type information. The first part of the dental case history contains information about patient’s name and surname‚ address‚ age‚ sex‚ occupation and so on. This
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EVOLUTION OF DENTAL IMPLANTS Since time immemorial‚ humans have used dental implants in one form or other to replace missing teeth. The first evidence of dental implants is attributed to the Mayan population roughly around 600 AD where they succeeded in utilizing pieces of shells as implants as a replacement for mandibular teeth. Radiographs taken in the 1970’s of Mayan mandibles show compact bone formation around the implants. Moreover‚ around 800 AD‚ a stone implant was first prepared and placed
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INTRODUCTION: Dental caries is one of the most common chronic childhood diseases worldwide. 1 It is initiated by the consumption of fermentable carbohydrates which are converted into organic acids by bacteria in dental plaque. These acids cause a fall in the salivary pH and result in demineralization by the loss of calcium and phosphate ions from the subsurface of enamel. 2 Prevalence of dental caries was seen to be 61% in children between 6 – 12 years 3 and those consuming sugar substances were
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My very first time ever being employed was as a dental assistant. I was impressed by the culture of kindness and professionalism that was always on display for everyone to witness. The dentist paid great attention to detail when it came to teaching all of the new assistants about keeping patients calm‚ keeping the instruments clean‚ keeping good notes‚ receipts‚ bookkeeping‚ and remembering different details of the patients.The dentist knew that his profession was synonymous with pain along with
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missing tooth with dental implants‚ complications and implant loss can occur. Peri-implantitis is a bone destructive process affecting the tissues surrounding dental implants(Mombelli 2002). Pathogens found in peri-implantits around affected implant were similar to pathogen found in periodontal disease.(Cortes et al. 2012) Many factors can affect the success of dental implants. systemic health‚ oral hygiene ‚ remained pathogens and habits can all play a crucial role in the success of dental implants as
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Dental profiling: It is a way to recreate the deceased persons profile prior to death based on clinical and radiological data available. Dental radiology helps in assessing the angulation of anterior teeth that lost after post mortem‚ and also examination of sockets aid in number and alignment of teeth [14]. Ante-mortem and post mortem radiographic comparison also helps in dental profiling. They allow the observation of anatomical characteristics
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Mrs. SL is 41 years old and presented as an emergency patient at the St. David’s Primary Dental Care Unit. She complained of severe pain UL2 that had kept her up the previous night. She was fit and well although reporting a previous medical history of epileptic seizures 5 years ago. Her pain was relieved by draining the abscess through the root canal and prescribing antimicrobials. Subsequently the patient reported dissatisfaction of the appearance of edentulous spaces in the maxillary left and right
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